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KANSAS CITY REGIONAL INSTITUTE
KANSAS CITY REGIONAL INSTITUTE AORN of Greater Kansas City hosted 14 states in a regional institute in late fall, at the city’s Country Club Plaza. The threeday institute was eo-sponsored by AORN’s National Committee on Education. “The Managerial Responsibility of the OR Nurse,” opened the session, with lecturer, The0
H. Haimann, PhD, professor of management science at the School of Commerce and Finance at St. Louis University in Missouri. Dr. Haiman isolated three directives for OR nurses: (1) define the problem; (2) analyee the problem; and (3) set forth to solve the problem. He advised nurses to distinguish between major and 66 Can I Love Me?” was the intriguing question minor “crises”-“don’t spend $50 on a $5 posed by C. Kermit Phelps, PhD, chief, Psycholproblem,” he reminded. “Can I Love Me?” was the title of another ogy Service, Veterans Administration Hospital lecture session, the topic answered emphatically in Kansas City. Mrs. Jean Kerr presiding officer for the session adds her own response.
On hand with order forms and pertinent information for delegates were Kansas City’s Regionul Institute Hospitality Committee Members, Ms. Janet Probst, RN; Ms. Rosemary Armstrong, RN; Ms. Bernadine Domville, RN; and Ms.Jeanne Mathewson, RN, chairman.
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“No” by C. Kermit Phelps, PhD. The chief of psychology service at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Kansas City, Mo, he proposed that people set up their own criteria for selfrespect, find their strengths, and then balance their weaknesses. “Others won’t let us love ourselves,” he explained, wing the field of advertising as an illustration-“make-up, wigs, and false eye lashes always try to improve nature
.”
Ms. Evelyn Eng, RN, delivered an illustrated speech entitled “Staff Development and Orientation P r o g r w . ” She is the director of nursing service at the University of Missouri Medical Center located in Columbia, Mo. Her program for staff development consisted of: (1)orientation; (2) performance evaluation; (3) skills training; and (4) continued education. “Methods of Work Simplification in the OR” was the subject of a presentation by Miss Lucy Jo Atkinson, RN, MSN. Her suggestions to
facilitate scheduled OR activity included: productive, simple, and rhythmic motion which follows smooth gestures dong curved paths; tools and materials pre-positioned within easy reach, two or more combined when possible. She mid hands should not do work that other parts of the body might do; workers should be at ease; and gravity should be used whenever possible. That medical people deal with organ transplants from four points of view was the theme of a panel discussion at the institute’s final session. The panel explained the moral, ethical, medical and legal aspects of transplantation. They concluded that legally, the court must use the guidelines of the Uniform Anatomical Gift Act and previous state legislation; medically, that, only a doctor is qualified to determine when death has occurred; ethically, that the decision of a qualified physician must be re-
Ms. Evelyn Eng, RN, University of Missouri Medical Center director of nursing sentice, spoke to Kansas City AORN representatives on staff development and orientation programs. Here she points out a proposed staff organizational plan to Mrs, Georgia Garland, RN, presiding officer.
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spected; and morally, that medical people deal
with the moral aspects of life-not life itself. The panel consisted of William A. Reed, MD, associate professor of surgery at the University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City, Kan; Loren F. Taylor, MD, JD, FCLM, department of anesthesiology, University of Kansas Medical Center. Rev. Joseph M. Freeman, SJ, professor of philosophy and theology at Rockhurst College, Kansas City, Mo and William J. Hape, DD, pastor, Second Presbyterian Church, Kansas City, voiced the clergy’s viewpoint. States represented were Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Iowa, Texas, Louisiana, Nebraska, Arkansas, South Dakota, N ~ ADakota, colarado, Illinois, New York, and New Jersey.
Karaya Seal, a new idea in ostomy care, makes it possible for rehabilitation to begin in the hospital soon after surgery and offers the patient a simple, comfortable method of self-care after he goes home. Designed to fit securely around the stoma, Karaya Seal protects the skin from leakage of intestinal discharge and painful excoriation. Each Hollister ostomy appliance i s a disposable, one-piece unit. Write for samples. HOLLISTER INC., 211 E. CHICAGO AVE., CHICAGO, ILLINOIS 60611
Theo. H. Haiman, PhD, professor of m n a g e ment sciences at St. Louis University, Mo, spoke to the regional institute in Kansas City. Sharing a joke with Dr. Haimun are Mrs. Georgin Garland, RN, presiding officer, and Sister Elizabeth Alexander, SSM, president of Greater Kansas City AORN.
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H. Haimann, PhD, professor of management science at the School of Commerce and Finance at St. Louis University in Missouri. Dr. Haiman isolated three directives for OR nurses: (1) define the problem; (2) analyee the problem; and (3) set forth to solve the problem. He advised nurses to distinguish between major and 66 Can I Love Me?” was the intriguing question minor “crises”-“don’t spend $50 on a $5 posed by C. Kermit Phelps, PhD, chief, Psycholproblem,” he reminded. “Can I Love Me?” was the title of another ogy Service, Veterans Administration Hospital lecture session, the topic answered emphatically in Kansas City. Mrs. Jean Kerr presiding officer for the session adds her own response.
On hand with order forms and pertinent information for delegates were Kansas City’s Regionul Institute Hospitality Committee Members, Ms. Janet Probst, RN; Ms. Rosemary Armstrong, RN; Ms. Bernadine Domville, RN; and Ms.Jeanne Mathewson, RN, chairman.
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“No” by C. Kermit Phelps, PhD. The chief of psychology service at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Kansas City, Mo, he proposed that people set up their own criteria for selfrespect, find their strengths, and then balance their weaknesses. “Others won’t let us love ourselves,” he explained, wing the field of advertising as an illustration-“make-up, wigs, and false eye lashes always try to improve nature
.”
Ms. Evelyn Eng, RN, delivered an illustrated speech entitled “Staff Development and Orientation P r o g r w . ” She is the director of nursing service at the University of Missouri Medical Center located in Columbia, Mo. Her program for staff development consisted of: (1)orientation; (2) performance evaluation; (3) skills training; and (4) continued education. “Methods of Work Simplification in the OR” was the subject of a presentation by Miss Lucy Jo Atkinson, RN, MSN. Her suggestions to
facilitate scheduled OR activity included: productive, simple, and rhythmic motion which follows smooth gestures dong curved paths; tools and materials pre-positioned within easy reach, two or more combined when possible. She mid hands should not do work that other parts of the body might do; workers should be at ease; and gravity should be used whenever possible. That medical people deal with organ transplants from four points of view was the theme of a panel discussion at the institute’s final session. The panel explained the moral, ethical, medical and legal aspects of transplantation. They concluded that legally, the court must use the guidelines of the Uniform Anatomical Gift Act and previous state legislation; medically, that, only a doctor is qualified to determine when death has occurred; ethically, that the decision of a qualified physician must be re-
Ms. Evelyn Eng, RN, University of Missouri Medical Center director of nursing sentice, spoke to Kansas City AORN representatives on staff development and orientation programs. Here she points out a proposed staff organizational plan to Mrs, Georgia Garland, RN, presiding officer.
February 1970
203
spected; and morally, that medical people deal
with the moral aspects of life-not life itself. The panel consisted of William A. Reed, MD, associate professor of surgery at the University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City, Kan; Loren F. Taylor, MD, JD, FCLM, department of anesthesiology, University of Kansas Medical Center. Rev. Joseph M. Freeman, SJ, professor of philosophy and theology at Rockhurst College, Kansas City, Mo and William J. Hape, DD, pastor, Second Presbyterian Church, Kansas City, voiced the clergy’s viewpoint. States represented were Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Iowa, Texas, Louisiana, Nebraska, Arkansas, South Dakota, N ~ ADakota, colarado, Illinois, New York, and New Jersey.
Karaya Seal, a new idea in ostomy care, makes it possible for rehabilitation to begin in the hospital soon after surgery and offers the patient a simple, comfortable method of self-care after he goes home. Designed to fit securely around the stoma, Karaya Seal protects the skin from leakage of intestinal discharge and painful excoriation. Each Hollister ostomy appliance i s a disposable, one-piece unit. Write for samples. HOLLISTER INC., 211 E. CHICAGO AVE., CHICAGO, ILLINOIS 60611
Theo. H. Haiman, PhD, professor of m n a g e ment sciences at St. Louis University, Mo, spoke to the regional institute in Kansas City. Sharing a joke with Dr. Haimun are Mrs. Georgin Garland, RN, presiding officer, and Sister Elizabeth Alexander, SSM, president of Greater Kansas City AORN.
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*Md?y Miss Youngs Confidence?
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